CVE-2016-8616
Estado: ModificadaMedia (5.9)—
A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51.0 When re-using a connection, curl was doing case insensitive comparisons of user name and password with the existing connections. This means that if an unused connection with proper credentials exists for a protocol that has connection-scoped credentials, an attacker can cause that connection to be reused if s/he knows the case-insensitive version of the correct password.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.0
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Puntuación base: 5.9
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 3.47%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 89
- Fecha de la puntuación: 7/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-592
- CWE-255
Referencias
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94094
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8616
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8616.patch
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102B.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94094
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8616
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8616.patch
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102B.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21
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